Important Dates
Paper submission 01/04/2025
Communication of results: 04/17/2025
Camera-ready due: 04/22/2025
Presentation
While urbanization has modernized people's lives, it has also brought with it major challenges, such as public management of public spaces, air pollution, congestion, energy consumption, quality of life, among others. In this context, Urban Computing emerges as a process of acquisition, integration, and analysis of a large amount of heterogeneous data generated from different sources in urban spaces, such as portable devices, sensors, vehicles, humans, among others. Urban Computing is an interdisciplinary area that connects Information and Communication Technology, advanced management of large volumes of data, and diverse data analysis methods to propose efficient solutions to problems faced by cities. In addition, Urban Computing aims to understand the nature of urban and social phenomena to better plan the future of cities and improve the quality of life of their inhabitants.
In Computer Science, Urban Computing is influenced by two major themes. The first refers to social aspects, which involve people's mobility, analysis and mining of urban information, human-computer interaction, etc. The second theme is related to technological aspects, which involve the proposition of solutions for Communication (4G, D2D and 5G), smart cities, Internet of Things, reliability and security, participatory/opportunistic sensing, etc. In this way, the Workshop on Urban Computing (CoUrb) aims to create a space for the presentation and discussion of works in the area of Urban Computing and for collaboration between researchers from different areas that, given their interdisciplinary nature, are not limited to Computer Science. In the context of SBRC, CoUrb aims to complement the discussions that exist in the main track of the event, directing them to the theme of Urban Computing.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:
- Data analysis and mining for urban environments
- Federated Learning for Urban Computing
- Architectures and protocols for urban environments
- Smart cities
- Social computing
- Urban Computing for Economic Development
- Urban Computing for Public Safety and Security
- D2D and 5G communication in urban environments
- Confiabilidade e segurança em Computação Urbana
- Data offloading
- Anomaly detection and event discovery in urban areas
- e-Governance
- e-Health and m-Health
- Heterogeneous data management
- Green Computing in urban environments
- Urban sensing infrastructures
- Internet of Things
- Human-computer interaction in urban spaces
- Improving the quality of life in the city using mobile services and Big Data
- Human mobility
- Urban planning using Big Data
- Protecting the environment with urban computing
- Participatory/opportunistic sensing
- Location-based services
- Recommendation systems
- Smart transport systems
- Urban data visualization
Instructions for Authors
Articles to be submitted to CoUrb 2025 must be written in Portuguese or English, with a maximum of 14 pages, including summary, abstract, figures, attachments, references, etc. All articles must be formatted according to the SBC's Article Publication Template. It is also important to emphasize that the articles to be submitted must follow the SBC's Code of Conduct for Authors in Publications, approved by the SBC Council in February 2024. Submission of articles will be exclusively electronic, through the system JEMS3.
Papers submitted to CoUrb 2025 will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers, and the selected papers will be organized for presentation and publication in the event proceedings. All accepted and reviewed papers will be published in SBC's digital library, the SBC OpenLibrary (SOL), at CoUrb series. The publication of accepted articles requires the registration of at least one author in SBRC 2025, as well as the oral presentation of the article during the event.
The Program Committee will announce during the event the three best articles of CoUrb 2025, which will be awarded a certificate and prize.
Organized by
Leandro Villas (UNICAMP)
Thiago Silva (UTFPR)
Daniel Guidoni (UFOP)
Program Committee
- Ademar Takeo Akabane (PUC Campinas)
- Alex Borges Vieira (UFJF)
- Allan Mariano de Souza (Unicamp)
- Ana Cristina B. Kochem Vendramin (UTFPR)
- Antonio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro (UFMG)
- Bruno Kimura (UNIFESP)
- Bruno Pereira Santos (UFBA)
- Denis Rosário (UFPA)
- Edmundo Madeira (Unicamp)
- Eduardo Coelho Cerqueira (UFPA)
- Felipe Domingos da Cunha (PUC Minas)
- Fernanda Sumika H. Souza (UFOP)
- Frances Santos (Unicamp)
- Geraldo Pereira (UESB)
- Heitor S. Ramos (UFMG)
- Helder Oliveira (USP)
- Helen C. M. Senefonte (UEL)
- Hugo Leonardo Melo dos Santos (UEPA)
- Islene C. Garcia (Unicamp)
- João Guilherme Maia de Menezes (UFMG)
- Lourenco Alves Pereira Jr (ITA)
- Luiz Fernando Bittencourt (Unicamp)
- Maycon Peixoto (UFBA)
- Rafael Lopes Gomes (UECE)
- Ricardo Lüders (UTFPR)
- Roberto Sadao Yokoyama (UFABC)
- Robson De Grande (Brocku University, Canadá)
- Rodolfo Ipolito Meneguette (USP)
- Rodrigo Campos Bortoletto (IFSP)
- Roger Immich (UFRN)
- Silvana Rossetto (UFRJ)
- Vinicius F. S. Mota (UFES)
- Wellington Viana Lobato Junior (Unicamp)
